We're living in a time of inconvenience
Compassion fails me with this meanness in the air
Our city streets are filled with violence
We close our doors and just pretend that it's not there
Here I go again back out on these mean streets
The evil seems to cling to the soles of my feet

'Cause I'm living in a time of inconvenience
At an inconvenient time

We're living in the age of communication
Where the only voices heard have money in their hands
Greed has become a sophistication
If you don't have money, you've got nothing in this land
Here I am only lonely woman on these mean streets
Where a right to life, man has become my enemy

'Cause I'm living in a time of inconvenience
At an inconvenient time

I've turned my cheek as my history fades
As the clock ticks away any progress we've made
I never thought I'd be ashamed to be human
Afraid to say, my time has seen its day

Yes, I'm living in a time of inconvenience
At an inconvenient time
Living in the age of greed and power
Where everyone seems to need someone to shove around
Our children come to us for answers
Listening for freedom but they don't know the sound
And there they are our children dumped out in these mean streets
The evil sweeps them up and brings them to their knees

'Cause they're living in our time of inconvenience
Living in our age of communication
Lost in at time of greed and power
They're living in a time that I wish was not mine
It's an inconvenient time

I wish wasn't mine
Such an inconvenient time